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On a windy Monday night Trinity-Spadina Councillor Mike Layton and employees from Cieslok Media gathered in a parking lot at Exhibition Place for a demonstration of the new digital signs slated to go up at 2 Strachan Ave. in the coming months.

“We normally don’t get the opportunity to do this,” Layton told The Villager.

“It was something that I wanted to see, I wanted to know what the difference was and I wanted to give that opportunity

to the community to see it as well.”

Cieslok Media transported a 10-by-20-foot screen, one of three screens that will be installed, on a flatbed truck to show Liberty Village residents the difference between 500 nits, the City of Toronto’s current permitted brightness under its sign bylaw, and the new proposed level of 300 nits.

The amended bylaw will also require electronic signs in the area to shut off from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.

The company is looking to transform its current billboards >>>COMPANY, page 2

High school students’ work on display until May 10 HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Students from 15 high schools across Toronto brought their best works of art to exhibit during the opening night of tdsbCREATES art festival.

“It’s a celebration of the city of Toronto,” said Christine Jackson, the coordinator of the arts for the Toronto District School Board (TDSB).

“We’ve invited them to think about their connection to the city of Toronto and the issues of living in Toronto and the people and the places.”

From paintings, to photography to film each student’s work is on display at Artscape Youngplace at 180 Shaw St., until May 10.

According to Jackson, the exhibition, which is now in its second year, is part of a broader festival that includes dance, theatre and spoken word across the city. To be a part of the exhibit students had to submit a proposal to a jury of professional artists who had final say on which art makes it into the show. From there students were partnered with >>>ARTIST, page 5

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Company looking to replace current billboards on Strachan Avenue >>>from page 1 on the east and west facing side on Strachan Avenue to three completely digital LED signs from its current one digital ad and two triplevision boards.

Layton orchestrated the demo to show residents, and to see for himself, the difference in illumination between the two levels.

“It’s a noticeable difference,” he said.

“We got to look at it (the sign) from all sides, and through the nit gun and it did show a decreased light intensity.”

After an open house held two weeks ago in Liberty Village, Cieslok Media took residents’ complaints into consideration and went back to the drawing board. “ We wanted to come back and show them what we’re doing to appease their concerns and make it palatable for all of us,” said Chris Bentler, the vice-president of operation and business development for Cieslok Media.

“So we’re showcasing that we can operate it (the sign) at a much lower brightness than what we currently have.”

Bentler also pointed out the transition from image to image is about a second and half and is no longer a quick flash, but a gradual fade similar to one used in a PowerPoint presentation.

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you have to change it fast, but based on neighbours’ complaints we’re suggesting, why don’t we just fade it because it’s nicer for the residents,” he said.

“If it comes in slower it’s less dramatic and flashy.”

One resident, Dipika Deol from 59 East Liberty St., was shown the fade but was still on the fence about how it will shine into her living room.

“For me it’s not as long of a fade as it could be,” Deol admitted.

“For me it’s not a problem with these kinds of colours (oranges, blues and blacks) but if it was white, I think it’ll still be a problem with a short fade.”

But according to Cheng Qian, a senior engineering product manager, who facilitated the demo of the sign, the distance she has from the sign is an advantage.

“The farther away you are the less illumination effect it will have,” said Qian.

“Distance is your main protection against illumi-

nation and lower nit levels have protection against glare too.”

The new signs will also have an optical down-angle LED, which will position the lights to shine towards the street rather than into the sky.

The new technology allows for a better image without all the intensity, according to Qian.

“For traditional illuminated signs you have to put a lot of light on them in order to get readability because the contrast is so poor,” he said.

“With digital you get much better contrast and much lower brightness levels. So ads actually appear clearer so you don’t have to jack the illumination up.”

By the end of the demonstration, both Layton and Deol had a better visual understanding of what a 300 nit level looks like, but the true test will be when the signs go up.

“The only reason I entertained these meetings is because I wanted people to get a better understanding of and I think I got a better understanding of it,” Layton said.

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Above and below, members of the Sistema Parkdale Orchestra perform at the event.

Music is in the air at Bonar-Parkdale Presbyterian Church Above left, the Grand Choir performs at the Parkdale Red Violin Gala Sunday at the Bonar-Parkdale Presbyterian Church. Left, Dr. Eugene Draw performs at the event.

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Filmmaker thrilled to premiere songbird doc at Hot Docs HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Migratory songbirds are the canaries in the coal mine for humans on earth.

Lose the songbirds and the planet’s demise might not be that far behind, according to the film The Messenger.

From the cities of Toronto and New York all the way to Costa Rica and the boreal forest of Canada, the population of migratory songbirds is plummeting.

“When I finally clued into that, as a filmmaker I said I’m going to do something about this idea. It’s definitely a problem that’s happening on a global scale and we wanted to reflect that in the film,” said Su Rynard, a Parkdale resident and the director of the documentary.

“This story demanded that we go to different places and we really tried to find people who were really engaged in researching and really trying to figure out why this is happening. I wanted to make it contemporary; it’s not a typi-

cal nature film.”

Rynard’s documentary, which premieres at the 2015 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival explores the human connection to birds and examines the variety of human-made perils that have devastated bird populations like Thrushes, Warblers, O r i o l e s, Ta n a g e r s a n d Grosbeaks through hunting, light pollution, high rise collisions, pesticides, cats and of course the loss of habitat.

“Every species has a different story to tell with myriad of causes and in some cases it’s more than one cause,” the Queen and Dufferin streets resident said. “One of the challenges ... when making the film was that there’s no single cause. There’s no smoking gun. Some say it’s the fastest rate of decline in human history.”

This is Rynard’s first time showing at Hot Docs, although her films have shown at film festivals around the world including the Rotterdam and Shanghai film festivals. Hot

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Director Su Rynard’s film, The Messenger, will be screened during the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

Docs was a missing piece in her festival mosaic.

“It’s great to show something in your home town, the other work I’ve done does travel and it’s great to get the work out in the world,” she said. “But if you don’t have a hometown audience there’s a bit of a disconnection. It’s really, really nice to do something you can tell your neighbour about at a local level.”

Her inspiration for the film comes from a combination

of personal experience and through reading Bridget Stutchbury’s book Silence of the Songbirds. She said over the years she’s travelled north during the summers and realized she would hear them less and less each year.

“I thought it was me, that I was just missing them. It wasn’t until I read the book and started analyzing the issue that I was like, ‘whoa, this is isn’t me, this thing I’m feeling is actually part of a huge problem’ and that is we

are losing the birds,” she said.

“It certainly has changed my experience of spring. I’m just way more conscious of the new sound out there. It has changed me. I will be much more vigilant and do what I can to further any conservation efforts because it’s important.”

To help try and save the songbirds, Rynard’s film has teamed up with Bird Studies Canada to create a social impact campaign that will serve as a bridge to audience members who feel inspired to help in any way they can.

It’s all she can hope for, she said.

“I would really like people to say what can I do to help?

And there are plenty of simple ways they can,” she said.

Rynard hopes when people come out to see the documentary they clue in to what’s happening around them and realize there’s a connection between humans and birds.

“The other message of The Messenger, is that we study birds because they’re so linked to the environment and they

do tell us something about the environment. So what happens to birds happens to us and it’s a link people don’t make,” Rynard explained.

“We really have to turn it back on ourselves because we live in that shared environment and if the environment doesn’t sustain them eventually, how will it sustain us? The answer is, it won’t. We really have to take it seriously not only for the birds’ sake, but also our own.”

To find out more about the film and ways to help the songbirds, visit www.themessenger.ca The Messenger which had its premiere at Hot Docs on Tuesday screens again Friday, May 1 and Sunday, May 3.

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he city’s going to start tracking our movements and before people begin crying foul over privacy rights, we’d like to suggest a few reasons why this is a good thing.

The so-called Big Data project – the subject of our exclusive report on page 6 – aims to take GPS probe data from our smartphones and other electronic devices to analyze traffic patterns. That information will give city planners a much more accurate picture of how people get around, where they’re coming from, where they’re going, at what time and – hopefully – help solve the city’s gridlock problem.

It could also monitor commuter times and help tackle commuter roadblocks. If anomalies show up on a particular road during rush hour, it may indicate a problem and the city could be quicker to respond.

That said, it’s not a sure thing. our view Without having seen the data yet (it needs to be purchased City must take from private sector navigation city staff are reluctant advantage of firms), to make promises about what be able to do with it. this information they’ll But if there’s any hope it can fix or improve traffic in this city – it’s worth a shot.

Annually we waste about $11 billion in lost productivity due to traffic congestion. And according to a traffic index compiled by navigation firm TomTom, the average Toronto commuter loses about 84 hours each year while delayed in traffic.

We can’t afford not to try.

We’re being tracked already via GPS in dozens of apps we activate on our smartphones. Our movements and locations are already being charted – whether we know it or not. With that information readily available the city needs to step into the 21st century and take advantage of that data, particularly if it’s got the potential to help improve our lives and the functioning of our city.

Transparency will be key in alleviating privacy concerns. We probably won’t see much of the data released to the public after the city’s purchased it, since private companies are charging for it. But at the least, the city should keep the public informed of its intention and its results, in a broad sense, as the experiment moves forward.

Our traffic problems need a solution, and this is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that may just get us there.

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Sheppard LRT delay has councillor thrilled Jim Karygiannis, the Ward 39 Scarborough-Agincourt councillor, had what to outsiders might seem a novel reaction to word that a major infrastructure improvement touching his ward was to be postponed, possibly indefinitely. He was, to use his own words, “ecstatic.”

Karygiannis’ delight in failure is not so mysterious when you look at the particulars: the infrastructure being a light-rail line along Sheppard Avenue East – and Ward 39 being located on the bleeding edge of Scarborough.

Karygiannis won the seat in 2014, campaigning heavily against the Sheppard LRT and promising to fight for what was long ago promised to Scarborough residents: a subway, connecting the foreshortened Sheppard subway to the Scarborough Town Centre.

Mel Lastman first promised it when he was mayor of North York in the early 1990s; Rob Ford promised it in 2010 when he ran for his

david nickle the city single term as mayor.

The LRT, delivered it seemed by former mayor David Miller and former premier Dalton McGuinty, never stood a chance, at least in public opinion, and as it turns out politically.

Former deputy mayor and Ward 40 Councillor Norm Kelly told The Scarborough Mirror’s Mike Adler during the election he was talking with Scarborough MPPs about delaying the funding for the Sheppard LRT. On Monday, that is precisely what happened. The province announced the Sheppard line will go ahead after another light rail line on Finch is up and running, which is scheduled to happen in 2021.

The question now is, will the prospect of a Sheppard subway line become a real question? Karygiannis says he’d like to make it so, but he has a great deal stacked

against him.

The least of his problems is the money: Toronto council and Mayor John Tory are heavily committed to a long list of expensive transit projects, including another costly subway venture in Scarborough, the extension from Kennedy north-eastward and Tory’s own SmartTrack plan.

Of course, financial impossibility has never stopped big-dreaming politicians before. But there is also a more daunting barrier: political fatigue. There is little appetite among the powerful in Toronto for more public transit debate, and for most on council, little to be gained fighting this fight. In the end, Scarborough transit grouses will likely have to confine their celebrations to a wake for the infrastructure that Karygiannis seems so happy to lose. Small victories are still sweet.

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David Nickle is The Villager’s city hall reporter. His column runs every Thursday.

Preserve your heritage, T.O. Re: ‘Preserving our heritage requires city’s competence,’ Editorial, March 26.

Toronto has long fancied itself as a worldclass city. However, I do not believe that it is there yet. First, we have to look at the real world-class cities to see what they have that gives them this most desirable ranking.

World-class cities all have one thing in common – historical sites. What has Toronto got that would make it a world-class city? Not much I’m afraid. Until we learn to preserve our historical artifacts rather than destroying them we will never have a worldclass city.

Oh, we have Fort York and a few others, but there are and have been some who would want to destroy these and build condos.

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Artist mentors helped students with their project >>>from page 1 an artist mentor through the TDSB’s collaboration with the Toronto Arts Council, to help them with the project.

“They are providing some funding so that we could connect every student who made art or film for this project with a professional artist who mentored them and helped them communicate the message they wanted to convey,” said Jackson during the Thursday, April 23 launch.

“I think the work is great. It shows a range of experience and ability, but what really excites me about the work is how honest it is and I feel the artists’ statements and what the students communicate, in terms of the ideas they’re exploring, is amazing.”

Central Toronto Academy, 570 Shaw St., had their grade 11 and 12 class submit 15 abstract paintings that depict various social justice issues.

Head of the HeArts department at Central Toronto Academy, Becky Dileo, told The Villager the students first looked through National Geographic magazines and chose a photo to turn into an abstract painting by creating a palette based

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Toronto Central Academy Grade 10 student Sarah Moniz, left, and her art teacher Becky Dileo display social justice stickers created by fellow students. The stickers are part of the tdsbCreate art show at Artscape Youngplace, running through May 10.

on the colour swatches in the photograph.

“Some did mental health, racial profiling, poverty; the full gamut,” Dileo said.

“This way they could choose a subject they’re most passionate about, which I think is key. As an educator I feel like we have our own passion and our own pursuits in

regards to social justice causes, so let’s get them thinking about what they’re most passionate about. Let’s see what really speaks to you.”

Sarah Moniz, a Grade 10 student, created The Girl Inside painting, to express societal pressures put on girls today.

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And then there’s little pieces of light, showing that when you get through it, it’s easier.”

Moniz was also part of the second art piece on display at Artscape, which involved students creating sketches and turning them into social justice stickers. Each student created a sticker that represented them. One shows a Muslim woman in hijab with a maple leaf in the background and the word “I am not a terrorist” written in the foreground. Another shows the hands of a caucasian and black person shaking hands with the words “Success has no colour.”

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hat if you could take a huge amount of traffic data and use it to accurately pinpoint which portions of a busy road will experience congestion before it actually happens? Or effectively determine what the traffic impact will be if a large infrastructure project does, or does not, get built?

In a city as gridlock-choked as Toronto, drastic steps are needed to address congestion, and the idea of making use of so-called Big Data is gaining traction among an enthusiastic collection of city officials, including Mayor John Tory, who are convinced the answer to alleviating Toronto’s often nightmarish traffic lies in making use of trillions of bytes of data to analyze traffic patterns on a massive scale never seen before locally.

“This will be a game changer and will establish Toronto as a leader in running a truly smart city,” said Tory this month of a plan to establish a specialized team of city traffic planners dedicated to the task of analyzing large amounts of vehicle – cars, public transit, bicycles – as well as pedestrian data in order to provide an accurate indicator of how the city moves around.

While planning is still in the early stages, the team’s official role will be to analyze the movements of tens of thousands of daily road users whose activities are captured via GPS probe data – tracked GPS signatures pulled directly from smartphones and other electronic devices – to determine how best to improve traffic conditions, influence public policy and evaluate the benefits or drawbacks of traffic regulations.

But really, it’s about making sure commute times stay consistent.

“People care about and get accustomed to their commute times and what really bothers them, I believe, is reliability,” said Toronto’s transportation services director Steve Buckley during a recent interview.

“What we really care about, for example, is if at 5:30 in the afternoon traffic on, say Bayview Avenue, is performing any different than usual.

Using data may tell us if it is and why.

It may be able to provide us with evidence something occurred there and we can intervene and help.”

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nd while there’s a strong optimism for Big Data’s potential, Buckley warns of seeing it as some kind of magical cure for congestion.

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because we have to sort through hard questions on what it is that exists out there,” he said. “We need to understand how useful it will be to us, how much it will cost to procure, manage and maintain the data.”

The new team will partner with McMaster University as well as the TTC to analyze vehicle movements.

It’s also tasked with reporting on the impacts of newly installed bike lanes, whose use is determined through GPS data provided voluntarily by the users of a mobile application for cyclists developed by the city.

Unlike open data (compiled figures released by the city for unlimited public use) Big Data will rely on proprietary information provided by private sector navigation firms that will sell the data to the city for

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its intended use.

Currently, the city is preparing a short list of companies it will contract for the initiative.

As long as the city entrusts the private sector with coming up with the necessary data, don’t expect to see a lot of compiled information released publicly for free since there is a significant commercial incentive to charge for such information. uckley believes the cost to the city is worth it if it makes it possible to better understand traffic patterns that five or 10 years ago would have been impossible to identify without requiring millions of dollars in expenses.

With navigation companies such

as TomTom and Inrix reaching ascendancy, private data collection has become so sophisticated it’s now possible to determine with pinpoint accuracy what is happening on roads on a minute-by-minute basis.

Once city staff become accustomed to playing with data sets, Buckley said he envisions more specialized groupings of data classified by factors such as speed of movement, which could provide a more accurate picture of citywide movement.

“You can envision a day where they can develop algorithms which are sophisticated to separate all those GPS signals and almost have a dynamic model for the city,” he said.

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While there’s a wealth of information for vehicles, there’s just not as much emphasis when it comes to the cheapest and easiest form of transportation: walking.

Dylan Reid, the founder of Walk Toronto, is skeptical considerations are being paid to pedestrians, noting the complete lack of mention of walking in a recent press release for the Big Data plans.

And, he said, there’s readily available data not being applied for improving conditions or making the case for more pedestrian spaces.

Reid points to a recent decision by city council, reinforced by city staff, to eliminate a pedestrian scramble, allowing unimpeded access from all corners of the street, at the intersection of Bay Street and Bloor Street after local complaints the practice was impeding traffic.

Reid believes existing data could have been used to find other intersections where a pedestrian scramble would help, rather than eliminate one entirely on the rationale it was underused and negatively affecting car traffic at the Bay-Bloor intersection.

With that in mind, he said he’s skeptical new data will be acted upon unless there’s the political will to do so.

“I am a little skeptical from a pedestrian point of view because the data is there and they’re choosing not to use it,” Reid said.

Toronto’s transportation services director Steve Buckley concedes there are issues with using Big Data to track pedestrian movements.

For one, GPS probe data is accurate to about a metre of space, which might result in inaccurate readings of pedestrian use. Another consideration, he said, is the reality that GPS data companies make their revenue through tracking vehicle movements and not pedestrians.

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CONSUMER FEATURE

Nash slams federal budget HILARY CATON hcaton@insidetoronto.com Parkdale-High Park MP Peggy Nash said last week’s federal budget does not serve the priorities of ordinary Canadians.

“I think that it’s a bit disappointing that Canadians have been waiting on a plan that would focus on their priorities and there didn’t seem to be much here for their priorities in this budget,” said Nash, the NDP’s industry critic.

“I think a lot of middle class families are really struggling, they’re working longer and harder and having trouble making ends meet.

Same goes for low-income families… It’s not surprising, I think that there are, for sure, some measures that are designed as beneficial for the Conservative party as we head into an election.”

Nash added this budget makes no mention of the issue of climate change and the growing crisis of affordable housing, especially in Toronto, in terms of quality and quantity.

“If I look at TCH (Toronto Community Housing) buildings in our area they could sure use some help in major maintenance and investment in upgrading the building.

Like heating, ventilation and energy efficient windows; there’s nothing in there for that,” she said.

Also absent from the budget according to Nash is a mention of an increase in minimum wage and childcare.

However, the budget does mention the Family Tax Cut, or income-splitting, which allows families with young

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If I look at TCH buildings in our area they could sure use some help in major maintenance and investment in upgrading the building.

– NDP MP Peggy Nash

children to split their income for tax purposes, providing a maximum savings of $2,000.

However, that won’t help the majority of families who are struggling, Nash said.

Childcare needed “When I talk to families in our community who desperately need childcare, some people are spending $2,000$3,000 a month on childcare,” Nash told The Villager.

“So if you’re going to spend billions of dollars giving the wealthiest one-out-of-10 households a tax break, which is what they’re doing with the income splitting, in our view it would be better to use that same amount of money and offer a national childcare program that offers all Canadian families accessible, affordable, high quality childcare.”

Other areas of the budget that could affect Toronto, as well as Parkdale, is the government’s investment in public transit systems.

According to the 2015 budget, $750 million will be given over two years, starting in 2017-18, plus $1 billion a year after that.

There is also mention of $35 million over five years to help immigrants cover the

cost of upgrading foreign credentials and $6 million over five years for better access to safe, reliable and less-expensive remittance services, which allow Canadians to send money to friends and family in developing countries.

“I introduced a bill on that last week in Parkdale, what we’re calling for is a limit of 5 per cent on the cost of remittances,” Nash said.

“Sometimes they pay up to 25 per cent to send money back home. It’s often a flat rate and so the smaller the amount of money you send, the higher the percentage.

And often it is people sending $50, $100 because it’s what they can spare.”

Despite its efforts to balance the budget and provide a surplus, Nash still believes more could have been done to help out the average Canadian.

“It remains to be seen what an impact this budget will have, but the focus of the budget is on people at the upper end of the income scale, and sadly the people in the middle and lower income levels aren’t really seeing progress in this budget,” she said.

“Canada is only as strong as the average Canadian family.”

Finance Minister Joe Oliver announced the federal budget April 21, with a projected surplus of $1.4 billion increasing to $4.8 billion in 2019-20.

It’s the last budget before the 2015 federal election, which is scheduled to occur on Oct. 19, 2015.

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Homecare and Ontario Doctors – Working together Whether they’re a family doctor, someone providing specialized care or emergency medicine, doctors play a valuable role in caring for those most important to us. At the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), a provincially-funded home and community care organization, we know access to health care is vitally important, particularly for seniors and the elderly. On May 1, the Toronto Central CCAC will celebrate Doctor’s Day and say thanks to the physicians who help us make a difference in the lives of over 73,000 Torontonians each year. On this annual day of recognition, we are honoured to celebrate the importance of our doctor partners.

Doctors who work in partnership with the CCAC’s home-care and hospital teams help people in neighbourhoods across Toronto. With our doctor partners, we create a team of people to care for those in their homes, making things smoother and easier for home-care patients. For example, this could include a nurse or nurse practitioner, a family doctor, multiple doctor specialists, a personal support worker, a pharmacist, a physiotherapist, and all together, this group makes up one team.

The doctor is connected to everyone through the care coordinator’s quarterback role and the patient has a team of people to care for him or her.

This is pretty new and somewhat revolutionary.

Imagine if a loved one had a team caring for him

or her at home after returning from the hospital, as an example, and everyone who came into the home was on the same page. No one would have to repeat a description of how they are feeling or what was happening with the illness. Imagine if everyone worked together to make sure that your loved one was cared for by a team of people working with your trusted family doctor, involved and in the know, every step of the way. By working together, doctors and their partners, such as CCAC Care Coordinators, are able to do just this.

And our partnership with doctors goes beyond just the family doctor. CCAC partners with doctors who specialize in disease management (COPD, diabetes etc.), emergency room doctors or doctors who help discharge you home after surgery or a hospital stay. Doctor partnerships are central to the success of getting people home and keeping them out of hospital. Without our fabulous doctor partners, patients wouldn’t be as healthy and happy at home. Happy Doctor’s Day! For more information about how doctors and the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) can provide you with health care support, contact the CCAC at (416) 506-9888 or visit www.healthcareathome.ca

—Jodeme Goldhar is the Lead, Health System Integration for Complex Populations and Primary Care at Toronto Central CCAC

CUTS TO HEALTH CARE MEAN CUTS TO YOUR FAMILY’S CARE. If your mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she might also experience issues related to depression or diabetes and require multiple physicians to provide care.

Ontario’s Doctors believe the provincial government’s cuts will put her health care at risk.

Tell the Premier and your MPP you support care not cuts at OntariosDoctors.com

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Spring Home Makeover Contest Winner

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Congratulations to

PETER GAUTHIER who won a $250 Home Depot® gift card

Thank you to everyone who entered the contest

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Spring Into Change

Join us at The Spoke Club for an exciting gala featuring live musical performances by the Dave Murphy Band, hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction.

Proceeds will be donated to the Patient Amenities Fund at SickKids with the goal of raising $30,000 to help children and families in need.

To purchase tickets, visit www.springintochange.ca

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Meagan’s Walk

This Mother’s Day weekend, join us for a 5 km walk in support of the Meagan Bebenek Endowment Fund and awareness, research and treatment of paediatric brain tumours at SickKids. The event begins at Fort York and ends with a human “hug” around The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).

Register at www.meaganswalk.com

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Bar Down by the Lake Ball Hockey Tournament The Faustina Hockey Club is hosting a 3-on-3 co-ed full day ball hockey tournament for ages 5 to adult in support of Juvenile Arthritis Research at SickKids. A surprise Toronto Maple Leafs alumni will be in attendance!

Register your team today: faustinagivingbackhope@gmail.com

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Francesco Grosso Diabetes Fundraiser

The Francesco’s Fund for the Diabetes Clinic at SickKids will be an evening of live music, celebration, community support and education in support of newly diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes kids at the hospital. All proceeds go directly to provide financial assistance to newly diagnosed families.

To purchase tickets, please contact liagrosso@rogers.com

Helping the environment

doing their part: Top left, Lisa Drolet hauls some old paint cans for disposal during the Environmental Day event at Fred Hamilton Park on Saturday. Above, Isadora Ayres fills a bag with compost. Left, Robin Segal fills her buckets with compost. Below, Bala Singh piles up E-waste for recycling.

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INLAND WHEN: noon to 9 p.m. today and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday WHERE: 99 Sudbury, 99 Sudbury St. CONTACT: Sarah Powers, info@madeinland.ca COST: $5 INLAND: A Canadian designer shopping event. Meet and shop directly from 80 Canadian fashion, apparel, accessory and jewelry designers for two days only. Kids under 12 are free. Visit www. madeinland.ca@made_ inland#INLANDSpring2015

w Friday, May 8

LOL, Laugh Out Loud WHEN: 6 p.m. WHERE: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. CONTACT: Ina O’Brien, 416-622-8833, ext.

229, www.georgehullcentre. ca/lol, reachus@georgehullcentre.on.ca COST: $150/ ticket The George Hull Centre’s Laugh Out Loud event in support of children’s mental health. Come laugh out loud as we celebrate our 30th anniversary featuring Canadian comedian Sean Cullen, comedic magician Sam Pearce and live and silent auctions.

looking ahead w Tuesday, May 12

Terroir May dinner series - An Ode to Beef (Grassfed, of course) WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: The Saint, 227 Ossington Ave. CONTACT: Susan Willemsen, 416-461-5270 COST: $85 The Terroir Symposium, Canada’s leading hospitality industry symposium, which brings together the elite of Canada’s culinary industry, partners with Samuel Adams Brewery to launch a series of four collaborative dinners featuring international chefs. There is also a Taste of Newfoundland at 7 p.m. at Beast Restaurant, 96 Tecumseth St.

w Saturday, May 9

14th annual Meagan’s Walk WHEN: 8:30 a.m. WHERE: Fort York National Historic Site, 250 Fort York Blvd.

CONTACT: Lynda Keith, www.meaganswalk.com, lyndakeith123@rogers.com COST: Free Meagan’s Walk is a fundraising event for all ages and abilities. The community walks from Fort York to The Hospital for Sick Children where they join hands to form a human hug around the hospital. Meagan’s Walk is named in honour of a little girl who died shortly after her fifth birthday, less than six months after a diagnosis

of a brain stem glioma.

Through that journey, her family learned that brain tumours are the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in young people age 20 and under. Meagan’s Walk was founded with a mission to change that statistic. To date, more than $3.6 million has been raised for pediatric brain tumour research at the Brain Tumour Research Centre at SickKids.

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days to the wThe100 Parapan Am Games Pan Am/ Parapan Am

Games Organizing Committee held a 100-day countdown celebration to the Parapan Am Games April 29.

The event featured a wheelchair rugby demonstration and eight Team Canada wheelchair rugby hopefuls.

Wheelchair rugby will make its Parapan Am Games debut this summer.

Synchro Canada hosts competition Pan Am Games medal hopefuls will be at the Shiseido Canadian Open from April 29 to May 2 at the new Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.

Canadian duet swimmers Karine Thomas and Jacqueline Simoneau, who are favoured to win gold at the 2015 Pan Am Games, as well as GTA-based athletes Rebecca Maule, Lisa Sanders and team captain Marie-Lou Morin will be competing.

The Pan Am Sports Centre is at 875 Morningside Ave. Tickets are available at the door. For more info, contact http://2015shiseidoopen. com

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michele mclean pan am/parapan am schedule wTheBaseball announced Pan Am/Parapan Am

Games released the men’s and women’s baseball schedule.

On the men’s side, teams competing include Canada, Cuba, the U.S., DominicanRepublic and Puerto Rico.

Canadian men’s opening game is Saturday, July 11 against Dominican Republic.

The women’s teams competing include Canada, the U.S., Venezuela, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Canada’s women’s team opening game is Monday, July 20 against Cuba.

The games will be played at the President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark.

Fo r t i c k e t s o r m o re information, visit www. toronto2015.org Live soccer draw wToronto held 2015 Pan Am Games

held a live soccer draw Friday, April 24.

The draw confirmed the eight nations on the men’s

side – Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Peru, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and Paraguay – will compete in the Games.

The draw was co-hosted

by Saäd Rafi, chief executive officer TO2015, and Torontobased singer/songwriter Amanda Martinez.

Launch of Pan Am wFriends Path Art Relay of the Pan Am Path

will announce the Pan Am Path Art Relay Friday, May 1.

The relay will travel across Toronto and aims to engage community groups to celebrate diversity, nature and arts. Events are planned along the route. The Pan Am Path is an 84-kilometre trail connecting the city.

The art relay will showcase Toronto’s neighbourhoods along the path and will serve as a legacy of the Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games.

For more info, visit www. panampath.org Michele McLean’s column on the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games appears every second week. Reach her at mmclean@insidetoronto.com

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